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> First one need to borrow the stock, which may be difficult for some stocks.

In the US, stock loan markets are extremely deep and liquid. Finding borrow is rarely a problem. Borrow fees may be relatively high, about 0.1% per day right now for GME. But considering that short sellers are targeting an 80%+ profit within a few weeks, that's not a real deterrent

Virtually 100% of shares held at retail brokers are available to borrow. This is especially true at discount brokers like Robinhood, where borrow fees are a primary revenue stream. Ironically the more WSB people that buy GME, the easier it becomes to borrow.

> If the stock goes up too much, the short seller needs to buy it back no matter what, for lack of margin.

This is incorrect in the vast majority of cases. Virtually every prime broker (i.e. the brokers used by hedge funds), uses portfolio margining. The prime broker calculates an aggregate "value-at-risk" for the entire portfolio, then requires the fund to post that collateral. As long as they have over that threshold, they won't trigger any margin calls. But even if they do, there's no reason they have to buy back GME specifically. They could just as easily liquidate any other position to bring down VaR in another less lucrative position.

Remember a major multistrat fund like Citadel or SAC will have something like $30 billion AUM, then lever that up by 500% or more. One of these players could short 30% of the float in GME, and it'd still only be 2% of their portfolio.
> I didn't say anything about morality.

The original claim was that squeezing an ill-advised short wasn't less moral than deliberately collapsing a currency and taking $1bn of funds from a government, or engaging in sketchy HFT practices. You said "then you don't understand this, or any of the things listed", implying that you believe that squeezing the short WAS less moral.

> Crude oil has storage costs. Those costs rarely overwhelm the value of the asset, but in particular circumstances they can.

"Storage costs" is a convenient and inoffensive way to say "the few remaining buyers with enough spare capacity smelled blood in the water and were able to price gouge".
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Agreed.

Reddit is catching flack. It's only a matter of time before they pull the pin for some ambiguous reason.

It's the perfect time to start funneling the audience to a dedicated forum (or literally a chan).
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This is incredibly sad, and true — I know, I’m living it too.
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Separating concerns the way you describe can be accomplished leveraging the polymorphism mechanisms in an OO language (objects and subclasses) or just as easily in a functional style (multimethods, protocols, interfaces).

Show me an example of something you think is decoupled in OO style which could not be similarly decoupled in FP, and I'll give you the FP version which does the same.

Not saying one is better than the other, but you can definitely keep your code decoupled in both styles.
This is just absurd indulgent whining. Find something useful to do; there is plenty of work for everyone. Find simple pleasure in being kind. Be thankful for what you have. Tinder dates and sex calendars reflect a lack of character not a problem with society.
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> Nor do I find charming the belligerent lack of any magical syntactic sugar for `self`. Does Python force you to pass it as an argument to make some kind of clever point?

On the class, you can call the method like a normal function (passing the self arg manually). Seems like a nice connection to just raw functions. Also explains how you can add methods after a class has been defined (set a function on it, whose first param is a class instance).
It's not just Ranitidine.

It's all blood pressure medications like Valsartan, losartan and irbesartan, and metformin the diabetes drug.

These are just the ones that have been tracked. Sometimes the drugs come in with higher doses than they should, or less than they should. Or sometimes the pills are mislabeled.
buy $GME
While the ever accelerating shift to digital purchases will definitely gut what used to be Gamestop's core business, it's entirely possible that Gamestop could successfully pivot to a new business model that makes them profitable again. Not probable, mind you, but definitely possible.
Canada produces very little. They are importing it from the big manufacturers. Last time importation from Canada became an issue the companies just said to Canada “we’ll sell you what you bought last year plus 5%.”. Then Canada got to choose - give those drugs to Canadians or sell them to the US. But they can’t do both.
The implied volatility isn't insane if the underlying is, you know, insanely volatile.
>And the app works fine

The Tesla standard is so high that if your customers have to use app, you've already failed.
Thanks. Getting into this was purely accidental. I had an interest in machine learning that required more and more complex pipelines to feed it. I kept adding on layers of complexity until I was running a Kubernetes cluster and a database. Learning kubernetes meant learning about bash and containers, which were useful later.
But all stock trading is mostly bullshit speculation. So I would say "long" have pretty much no legitimate use either.

Everything done now is so far away from "investing" that it's literally insane.
Yes, but you will also quickly learn why diabetics complain about this method of testing.
Strong arming is the right term. United Healthcare in the US has 40 million members. Bigger than the entire population of Canada. Yet they can’t negotiate prices anywhere as low.
It started out as a fun joke, then people started making money, then from my view it got sort of co-opted into an occupy type thing.
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It ain't a charity: after the initial development, drug production is usually very cheap.

Aligning prices with purchasing power allows pharmaceutical companies to get _something_ out of the markets they'd get nothing out of. And with large numbers, that something might turn out to be a bit more.
Additionally... Tulip-mania was driven up by false scarcity. People are buying up GME on principal as punitive action against hedge funds. SWJs + Day Trading = /r/WSB
I wouldn't call futures as very similar to options. The mathematical profiles of the two are very different, though a far ITM option is basically a future
Weren't various famous people getting various BLM people out of jail? Isn’t that, not so good? Lot of looting going on.

My position is that its not-so-good for these groups to get a free pass since the precedent that is set then messes with justice regardless of the event that preceded it. Two wrongs don't make things right.

Condemning the violence around the capitol while not doing the same for the violence around the anitfa actions and blm protests where there was also real violence... doesn't seem wise.

The mess just gets bigger. Those on the left and right need to examine their actions. They are setting precedents that are shaping the future in some not-so-good ways. Chaos for the sake of chaos doesn't lead anywhere good.
Yes, truly astonishing.
okay, but if it was a pump and dump why all the media manipulation and shenanigans? why the coordinated attempts to tank the stock, etc? wouldn't u want it to skyrocket and reap the benefits? i mean that's exactly what a pump and dumper would do, just let it naturally die afterwards.

this "make the regular people mad to fake a short squeeze to pump the stock" is some weird 4D explanation. not saying it's guaranteed, but the simplest answer is sometimes the best, that they are in a position to be squeezed and it's looking more likely.
> Very few people have the skill to turn a div into an effective button, yet over and over I see web sites with rows of buttons which are in fact just divs with javascript behind them.

Gahhh. I use either an <a> or a <button> and put style on it. Has all the same visual appeal of the equivalent div. But it already is a button.
seems to be missing one important thing, all the EV owners have chargers at home, someone just needs to leverage this network to make it easy to book a charge at any owner's place that available and convenient - if you supply, you can consume, everyone benefits.
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Surprised I had to scroll down this far to read this. Not just refactoring, also debugging. If there's a buggy method in a class somewhere, I can just copy the offending method into Jupyter, set self = a suitable instance of the class and start teasing apart what is going on line by line.
So basically that dude knew exactly how to make serious money by making it out to be some massive blow to Wall Street?
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Can you explain why this is not fully open to paying customers?
wron, ex-CEO of Chewy is quite a bit long
If you're surrounded by people that constantly tell you how smart you are, you should take it as a signal and go find new (more intelligent) people to surround yourself with.

You don't want to be the one-eyed king.

Also, on the subject of "genius", having met a few in my life, many people seem to have a simplistic idea of what it takes to be one. According to one popular model, all that is required is an increase in the magnitude of certain qualities which everyone already possesses in some measure. Make the particular qualities pronounced enough, and you get to genius. But a better way to understand the concept may be that a genius has a particular capacity, which on a certain level can seem obvious or unremarkable, but which no one else has. A genius, on this understanding, is a person uniquely capable of making a leap ‘off the path’. With hindsight the leap may seem simple or obvious, but at the time no one else was, apparently, capable of making it. A potential leap of this kind is made possible by preceding leaps. Nevertheless its actual occurrence may go on not happening for decades. During that time there may be clear pointers towards it. Yet it is not until a genius comes along that the leap actually happens.
I'm really bothered by Discord banning WSB. It's almost petty, like saying that a group of people shouldn't even be allowed to talk to one another because they're too dangerous. It seems like a lot of technology companies are doing all they can to keep people - many stripes of people - from congregating and sharing ideas. I wonder what would happen if these same WSB folks got together in person ... oh..right, they can't. So they can't talk online. Can't gather in person. Can't use social media. It's almost like there's a concerted effort to silence people....
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We should assert every person's right to engage in behavior where there is risk of bringing harm upon yourself, because every behavior carries this risk, and the presence of risk should not disqualify an endeavor from taking place at all.
That sounds pretty awesome, and kudos to your brother and his family for how they are managing the land. But, you must realize what you described is not representative of most commercial timberland. You can see the effects of timber operations via satellite imagery, even quite far zoomed out - see most of western Oregon, for example.
That point is kind of the whole point too
This isn't really true. An options value is derived from a variety of inputs that have nothing to do with the price of the stock, namely, forecasted volatility and interest rates.

No real option market maker is using anything except the current price of the stock to price their options. This isn't strictly true, but what I'm saying is that people don't determine the fair value of a stock through looking at option prices.

If you want to learn more, check out black Scholes pricing model and option Greeks.
there is always someone left holding the bag. welcome to life.
> you need a huge upside.

Shorting a stock at $300, when it was trading at $16 last month is pretty much the definition of huge upside.
With how things go your break even price of $520 seems optimistic.
> base them on something

All the talk of short squeezing and sticking it to the hedge funds and Wall Street aside, they are really basing it on the belief that someone will buy it at a higher price than it is now which will be true until it's not.

Unlike Tesla or Bitcoin which many think are bubbles, this is a case where absolutely no one believes in Gamestop (being a $24 billion company, at least). There's not anyone who thinks holding it forever is a good idea at this price (or even at a fraction of the current price). In these cases when the stock stops going up it implodes very very quickly.
If all the chargers are regularly full, presumably they will build more chargers.

In the long run, having a higher percentage of EV owners should increase ability to reliably find a charger because there will be less variability in demand.
"Claim" seems like the wrong word. It's explaining shorts, but I think it's actually doing it inaccurately. It's saying the hedge fund will have to buy the cows at the end of the month. I don't think that's accurate. I don't think shorts ever expire.
Individuals vary. I get my fasting blood glucose and A1c checked regularly, so I have a sense (independent of weight) of diabetes risk.
The fact that you have to say "r-word" instead of "retarded" is embarrassing.
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> How does the user benefit from having a phone built on top of open source software, that they cannot update a well known security vulnerability because the manufacturer can't bother to run a build with the last upstream version?

Well, depending on the incentives and restrictions involved, an ecosystem of 3rd-party builds is a potentially viable escape hatch for the user from the manufacturer's grip.

Of course the sticking point is the degree to which the hardware requires proprietary and opaque binary blobs in order to enable important user-facing features. But then, that isn't anything really new, as open source PC operating systems have been dealing with this issue since forever, with the caveat that PC hardware is mostly modular, so having or swapping in well-supported components is an option, whereas smartphones are an integrated slab of metal, plastic, and glass, with "no user serviceable parts inside" as the status quo.

But even that caveat has precedents, in non-PC devices such as consumer networking gear that only became well supported through aggressive GPL license enforcement actions that freed some of the necessary code.
well, the short sellers contributed.

WSB and other investors pocketed the 5 billion from those people. And I assume some diamond hands on WSB will end up losing everything.

It's easy to understand why everyone is HODL in WSB, since that's the position you want others to hold whether you want to sell or hold. Won't surprise me if half already exited.
How will you avoid shortages, when the returns to drugs with chronic shortages are no better than those to drugs with plentiful supply on the market already?
is that fair to say? certainly some of them are buying at $350 now? Some people are selling now and others are buying, setting the market price. From a selfish standpoint, it makes sense to sell now, if for nothing else, to take those profits to manipulate some other poor company, no?
r/wallstreetbets is back online as of now.

The Discord spaces on the other hand have split up into a bunch of other broken spaces.
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Another solo founder here with a similar product (it generates images), similar revenue and similar age. I went the Electron route so my solution uses local compute and you get to save designs to your desktop. You can batch process thousands of images from spreadsheets, etc.

The kicker is I built this for label printing. So the output can be full color or dithered black and white, and my app talks to a few dozen supported USB thermal label printers.

Like the author described.. I niched down. Check out my app at https://label.live

BannerBear is cool and the marketing is truly inspiring. Keep up the good work!
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Why unethical? Person has obligations to themselfs and their family, not to some corporation they do not even work for.
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>Alice owns 100 shares. Bob borrows 100 shares from Alice, then short sells them to Chuck. There are now 200 shares long available to buy back- 100 owned by Alice and 100 by Chuck.

That is not quite true. If after Bob has borrowed and sold 100 shares to Chuck, and then David comes along and makes an offer to Alice to buy 100 shares, Alice can only sell her shares once they are recalled. Which means Bob now has to scramble to return those shares, specially if Chuck does not want to sell (or if Chuck has lent out those shares and they need to be recalled in turn).
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Shouldn't we keep piracetam (and the rest of the racetams) away from the FDA?
https://nootropicsdepot.com/piracetam-800mg-capsules/

The tyranny of prescription required isn't worth it.
Common misconception, as most didn't hear much about it beyond its initial signing. Congress still has that exemption. I believe you're referring to the STOCK Act, of 2012, which cramped their style for a little over a year.

In 2013, Senator Harry Reid introduced S.716, which after 14 seconds of discussion was passed by unanimous consent. Its net effect was to make the rest of STOCKS untrackable, and therefore unreportable and unenforceable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act#Amendment

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/17749...
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You're right, I read that Trump started a populist movement for his own enrichment and assumed he was relating that to the WSB populist movement getting started, since I just read an article stating that.

Edit: Here's the article I was reading: "How Trumpism explains the GameStop Surge"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/gamestop-stock-surge...
Nope. That there will be exoplanets, and we will be able to detect the larger gas giants first, then the smaller solid ones, and things like brown dwarfs between the stars too!

edit: Well, 'predict' may have been the wrong word since it wasn't my own idea. That I've got from reading anything I could get hold of, including Sci-Fi. I just got very angry about certain dogmatic world views trying to be imposed onto me. Which I countered with mine, based on 'gut-feeling' supported by past evidence.

edit: Also planets in orbits about double/multi-star systems.
In the US, people go to "college" at a "university". College is a level of education and a university provides that level of education. One alternative to a college education is what's called a "technical school", and you're right, the submitter probably doesn't need a technical school.

(To add to the fun, there are also community colleges, state colleges, and private colleges, all of which provide a college education but on a smaller campus than a university. Universities are generally quite large.)
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No one is front running orders on a large scale. This does not happen.
When you buy before you sell, it's called a 'long' trade. You expect the stock to rise in value. Normal trade.

When you sell before you buy, it's called 'short' trade. You expect the stock to fall in value.

Example:

I shorted GME at $25 (sold), expecting it would fall to $12, where I could buy it back.

Reality:

/r/Wallstreebets and others decided to keep buying to make the 'shorts' buy (i.e. cover) also, creating a buying frenzy and an insane rally.
Mmm is this a comment from the 60s, Chinese people don't dream to come to America, we go back to our homeland to make money sorry to burst buble
Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? They specifically ask you not to post like this, but rather to email us if there's something that needs our attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25936214.
In order for a programmer to program in many patterns elegantly, one must first have understanding of those patterns and how they are roughly reduced to machine code.

The skill of experiencing trumps the amount of experience.

Bad programmers need to hone their skill to experience in order to become good programmers. The most popular way is to provide them a safe environment to make mistake and learn from it. But the most important way is actually knowing that skill of experiencing and getting out of biases are important, like in this case "if OOP is indeed bad, why is it invented in the first place", and the rabbit hole actually gets interesting from here.

At least that's my take after a few years in the industry.
What fines? No real firms front run. Market makers are not front running your orders. This does not happen
I'm old enough to remember that being said about chess and go. We do not need general purpose AI to solve either of those, and neither do we need it for solving mathematical problems.
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Sociery certainly sees the harm in prescription opiods.

I imagine a lot of it is due to many prescription drugs not being habit forming or generally pleasurable, thus people are more likely to use it in cases where the benefit outweighs the harm in a much more objective fashion.
Considering battery material supplies, the Volt is probably the best 20 year design for moving off of ICE, although I'd like it to get close to 50-80 all-electric which might get to 95-99% of all car trips being electric, even though usually PHEVs use the gas engine if AC/Heat is needed, but again that's a very acceptable transition cost.
I think it's potentially more interesting than that.

It's hard to get figures to back up any speculation, of course... but it seems like this is at least somewhat a short squeeze. And it's potentially not just a bunch of gambling where people are gonna lose the farm...

The righteous narrative, for however much you might believe it, is that a significant portion of traders all basically agreed to each take on a small degree of risk in order to prove a point. People going big in, and not using the right instruments to ahem hedge their losses, are certainly gambling, but the proportion of these is not really clear.
empathize yes. Sympathy? Probably not
>>I can burn the $10 note you gave me [...]. There's nothing illegal about that.

Not to detract too much from your analogy but burning money is illegal in some jurisdictions[1], and in the United States is prohibited under 18 U.S.C. §333: "Mutilation of national bank obligations"[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_burning

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/333
I wonder if anyone has used AI to figure out how many of the people pumping this are actually not real and mults (x10 or 20) of the same few people and others are helping them attain their market dreams, when they sell very soon. Just a hunch
Awesome product and name / domain!

That list of bar code types blows my mind - and shows me that clearly this is a niche I know nothing about :)
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Who cares. It's the stock market. You aren't guaranteed a profit. It doesn't give a shit about protecting you. People have been making stupid financial decisions for decades...some people are going to make a lot of money and others will lose their shirts. Same with the bitcoin people, the tesla people, etc etc.

This isn't new...there are gamestops every couple of years. This is just an extreme version in a year when everyone is online 24/7.